* test mail
@ 2002-05-16 13:22 G Anna
2002-05-17 15:34 ` Petre Bandac
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From: G Anna @ 2002-05-16 13:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-newbie
Hello All!
This is a test mail. I am not receiving any mail from this mailing
list. And I don't know why. All the mail that I send to this mailing
list seems to disappear into thin air. So this is a test mail. If
you people see this mail via the mailing list, kindly intimate me
offlist. Perhaps, I have been un-subscribed automagically?
Cheers,
anna
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hotel well outside my borders will work just as well. - Peter Anspach
in "The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord"
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: test mail
2002-05-16 13:22 test mail G Anna
@ 2002-05-17 15:34 ` Petre Bandac
2002-05-17 20:58 ` Haines Brown
2002-05-18 17:41 ` Mike Miller
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From: Petre Bandac @ 2002-05-17 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: anna7sept, G Anna, linux-newbie
it happened to me once; the solution is to subscribe again (with the same
mail address, of course)
can't think what could be the reasons ...
HTH,
petre
On Thursday 16 May 2002 16:22, G Anna wrote using one of his keyboards:
> Hello All!
>
> This is a test mail. I am not receiving any mail from this mailing
> list. And I don't know why. All the mail that I send to this mailing
> list seems to disappear into thin air. So this is a test mail. If
> you people see this mail via the mailing list, kindly intimate me
> offlist. Perhaps, I have been un-subscribed automagically?
>
> Cheers,
> anna
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@ 2002-05-18 18:00 Ray Olszewski
2002-05-18 19:41 ` Mike Miller
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From: Ray Olszewski @ 2002-05-18 18:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mlmiller, linux-newbie
At 12:41 PM 5/18/02 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
>It seems that majordomo doesn't like lurkers. I find that I have
>to re-subscribe several times a year.
Mike--
I doubt your problem with this list derives from being a lurker. It is more
likely that your e-mail address suffers, as many do, from short periods of
being unreachable.
Although normal SMTP practice is to queue and retry when e-mail is
undeliverable, mailing lists have special problems in this area. People all
too commonly forget to unsubscribe from mailing lists when their e-mail
addresses change (or they have no opportunity to, for example if they are
laid off). A majordomo or Mailman list can get dozens of bounces each day
from a single bad address.
As a consequence, many list-management setups automatically unsubscribe
unreachable addresses *very* quickly, so that a service interruption of an
hour or two (hardly a rare thing) can knock you off the list. It's tough on
subscribers, but not doing something like this is murderously tough on list
managers. (I don't manage this list, but I have managed other lists in the
past, and I know the problems from experience.)
In your case, I did check and your mail is at risk of interruption. Your ISP
appears to provide a backup server in case its main mail server goes down,
but in reality both FQNs resolve to the same IP address ... so they don't
have a real backup if there is a service interruption. Here are the details:
collier:~$ host -t MX charter.net
charter.net MX 5 mx01.charter.net
charter.net MX 10 mail.charter.net
collier:~$ host mx01.charter.net
mx01.charter.net A 209.225.8.223
collier:~$ host mail.charter.net
mail.charter.net A 209.225.8.223
collier:~$
While I can't be certain of this -- onlt this list's manager really knows --
I'd guess that when people are unsubscribed unintentionally here, a
transient interruption in e-mail service at their end is the most likely cause.
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Palo Alto, CA ray@comarre.com
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